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Re: 2,000 Basics? Well still counting!

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From: Grant Dixon
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 1997 00:00
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Grant Dixon <dixon@dogwood.physics.mcmaster.ca> wrote in article
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Kevin Handy, Alexandre Wyzlic, Eric Chow, Ronnie Deschenes, AK, Don
Schullian ,Bernard Blackhamand, Kevin Handy, Daniel Garlans, Ken Stieers,
mikeainia@aol.com, Ronnie Deschenes, AnonHamiltonBoy and scout@golden.net
are the fourteen people who added to the list.  No one has added all the
versions of QuickBasic or Visual Basic yet so... I have added the Versions
I have used. One day and we are close to 50 maybe 2000 is not out of line? 
Keep them coming and I will up date them (well as soon as I get back from
as short trip.

VAX BASIC
Shepardson Basic
BASICA
MS BASIC
GWBASIC
Turbo BASIC
QuickBASIC 4.5
QBASIC
dBase 
Clipper
Force (Half BASIC, mixed with a little C and Pascal)
UDF - An industrial BASIC used in building control systems (HVAC)
Enable Basic a TurboCAD V3.0 script language
Novell's Script Language (looks like BASIC to me)
ORACLE
SQL (Sorta)
ProComm Script
MicroSoft's Dial up Script
Visual Basic 4.0
VBApplication
VBScript

SBASIC (Came with many KAYPRO's)
CBASIC

And all of the basic variants built into early "home computers"

Commodore
Sinclair/Timex
Apple II
Exedy Sorcerer
TRS-80

ALTAIR BASIC
BASICA
GW-BASIC
Dartmouth BASIC
Liberty BASIC
ASIC
FirstBasic
Moonrock BASIC

ZBasic
CBasic
CB-80
PowerBasic

BASIC      it _had_ to exist sometime way back when
PowerBASIC
M-BASIC    from the CPM daze
BASIC v7.0 from Commodore 128 
??BASIC    from Commodore  64's

>TI-BASIC

Basic BHT (To read bar codes)
A BASIC
True Basic
Tiny Pasic
Chipmunk (mac)
NS Basic
GB Basic (Game Boy)
Flash Basic
Array Basic
O'Basic95
ST Basic   (AtariST)
STOS Basic (AtariST)
GFA AtariST
GFA Amiga
GFA DOS
GFA WIN
Access Module Basic

Newton Basic. ( The one for Apple Newton PDA )
LBasic ( The on for a primitive 8-bit computer 'Laser', which uses
cassette tape )
Casio Basic ( The one comes with Casio 80's digital diary )

Atari Basic

SBASIC (Came with many KAYPRO's)
CBASIC

And all of the basic variants built into early "home computers"

Commodore
Sinclair/Timex
Apple II
Exedy Sorcerer
TRS-80

BasicBasic
APBasic
Chipmonk Basic
YABasic
Liberty Basic
CARealizer  (I should have added this one as I have also used it)

GBASIC

UBasic (high precision)
Chipmunk BASIC (for Mac, I think)
FirstBasic (actually Powerbasic 2.1 under a different name)
BasicBasic (I don't think I saw this one)
Euphoria (A BASIC-like language)
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From: "Grant Dixon" <dixon@dogwood.physics.mcmaster.ca>
Subject: Re: 2,000 Basics? Well still counting!
Date: 1997/03/02
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